TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nye,David E.
TI  - Technology matters: questions to live with 
SN  - 9780262640671 (pbk.)
AV  - T14 .N94 2006
U1  - 303.483 21
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Technology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Technology and civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1; Can we define "technology?" --; 2; Does technology control us? --; 3; Is technology predictable? --; 4; How do historians understand technology? --; 5; Cultural uniformity, or diversity? --; 6; Sustainable abundance, or ecological crisis? --; 7; Work : more, or less? Better, or worse? --; 8; Should "the market" select technologies? --; 9; More security, or escalating dangers? --; 10; Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation? --; 11; Not just one future --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; Version électronique également disponible sur Internet
N2  - "Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. In Technology Matters, Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies."--Jacket
ER  -